Yesterday, I did two things that dramatically changed my Internet Experience. They have been so (unexpectedly) awesome I thought I'd share ( Read more... )

My minimal web skills are no match for web browsers. Why does the layout appear close to how I intend in one, and different in the others? I'm not even asking for minimal margin quibbles, just trying to figure out which are the best tags to use to try to get font sizes to appear the way I want them to. The few tags I know how to use, some are going ( Read more... )

Kirkwood Urban Forest Community Garden. I can't get the fonts to look quite right on different browsers, but oh well. If anyone knows how to fix that I'm all ears.

Input appreciated.

For yesterday being such a great day - and it was - I wrote surprisingly cranky things. Anyway, rain should be coming soon, crossing fingers hoping the clover I planted everywhere actually does something and it's not too late... threw down tons of annual red clover, which is grown as a winter crop. It is gorgeous, in addition to that whole nitrogen ( Read more... )

"Google's problem is that search engines can be easily fooled. Since the user indexes his or her own data by what is published to the web page, people tend to list all sorts of keywords which in turn create false results. Google's solution was PageRank, or picking the most popular sites. This doesn't work because all language is contextual, and as ( Read more... )

Poll Browsers

My in-laws bought me a fancy new phone. It is horribly complicated. I'm not even certain how to call on it yet (granted, got it about 2 hours ago). I might need phone numbers soon, or, alternatively, I might accidentally be calling or texting or showing up randomly on the internet saying hi because my fingers are clumsy and so far there is a steep ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm sick and the brightness of the monitor is killing me. Macintosh hardware, currently using the Win7 partition. I'm not using a standard keyboard and after mashing many buttons have determined that there is no keyboard option to directly affect brightness/dimness that is obvious to my fever-addled brain (maybe a keyboard combo?). The internet ( Read more... )

I never know what time it is. My computer has both OS X and Win 7* on it, and when I boot them up, they seem to get confused about what time it is. Usually it's a 4 hour discrepancy, when I correct the clock on one side, the other moves off by four hours. After the time change, it has become more confusing. I had the time zone set to my appropriate ( Read more... )

...is shiny, $499, and they use a dorky reworked version of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" in the background music - niiiiiice. There's a little virtual keyboard that will show up on the screen - I wonder if it comes in Dvorak? Hell if there's a word processor program that goes along with that, that could be used seamlessly while online it'd be ( Read more... )